A Nobel Laureate's Education Plea: Revolutionize Teaching
Stanford physicist Carl Wieman is on a quest to bury the big lecture in favor of evidence-based techniques. But it's not clear higher education is listening.
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Not All Financial Education Is Effective. Here Are 4 Ideas That Work
Credit scores. Car loans. Mortgages. It's stuff we all need to know. Yet not all financial education classes help us make better financial decisions. But some do.
Young Scientists Feature Projects At 2016 White House Science Fair
NPR's Robert Siegel talks with two students whose science projects were featured at the 2016 White House Science Fair.
Stanford Physicist Embarks On Mission To Improve Undergraduate Teaching
Research shows that some teaching methods are a lot better than others. But why aren't more colleges and universities even bothering to measure teaching effectiveness? Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, a Stanford professor, is on a mission to improve undergraduate teaching and learning.
Kansas State Recruits Students Who Are In The Country Illegally
Kansas State University is aggressively recruiting those students by using privately raised money to provide grants and scholarships. Other schools have closed the door on such funding.
The Rare District That Recognizes Gifted Latino Students
Few gifted programs across the country have done what Paradise Valley, Ariz., has done to identify and support gifted English language learners.
A Simple Cure For Education's Jargonitis
It can be hard to make sense of the words used by people who want to make schools better. Here's our Reader's Guide, using the most common words in English.
Parent Support May Help Transgender Children's Mental Health
Transgender people tend to have more mental health problems than the general population, but having supportive parents in childhood may help reduce that risk, a study finds.
Gifted, But Still Learning English, Many Bright Students Get Overlooked
More than 3 million U.S. schoolchildren are classified as gifted. Thousands of others, however, are never identified as gifted and remain underserved because they start school not speaking English.
Want To Teach In Urban Schools? Get To Know The Neighborhood
Many teachers in urban schools don't understand their students or the places they live, says author and educator Christopher Emdin.